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...theatrical as he is efficient, Fuchs spits on his gold-colored, 16-lb. shot and thoughtfully polishes it with a massive paw before he gets poised for his throw. Then, with a negative, jowl-flapping shudder of his head, he crouches slightly on his powerful legs ("they're 50% of my success") and uncoils his frame from his toes to his fingertips. His heave last week was 57 ft. 9± in., 8± in. short of his own latest world record, set in April...
Gunther's mouth often seems as wide open as his eyes. Noting that F.D.R. and his mother both nearly died at his birth from an overdose of chloroform, he ponificates: "Of such hairbreadths is history nade." A shudder passes over him when he recalls that Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928 by only 25,000 votes: "His whole future career was made possible by less than 1 per cent of the electorate. What would have happened to America in the turbulent 19303-and later , -if this minuscule handful of voters had gone the other way?" Admirers...
...Doesn't the mental picture of Paris plastered with wall-sized Coca-Cola signs, its kiosks enveloped in outsized bottle tops, make you shudder . . . ? Is there any reason why a Frenchman, who objects to seeing his own language bastardized (Buvez Coca-Cola) at every turn of a corner, should be accused of "smugness" . . .? Would we miss an opportunity to protest loudly if signs advising "Drink of Champagne French" suddenly appeared on our horizon...
Accent on Accents: There are too many Phi Beta Kappa members in government service, Senator Karl Mundt, South Dakota Republican, told newspaper executives in Chicago. "I shudder to think what the boys with the Harvard accents have cost the country in the last sixteen years," Mundt said, shuddering. Newsweek, October...
...mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said Editor Hall: "We want to produce the Rolls-Royce of detective magazines...